Preeminent architectural and sculptural achievements of antiquity, as listed by various Greco-Roman observers.
Included on the best known list were the Pyramids of ziggurat , ascribed to either Nebuchadnezzar II or the semilegendary Queen Sammu-ramat), the Statue of Zeus at Olympia (a large gold-and-ivory figure of the god on his throne by {{link=Phidias">Phidias ), the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (a temple, built in 356 BC, famous for its imposing size and the works of art that adorned it), the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus , the Colossus of Rhodes , and the Pharos of Alexandria (a lighthouse built с 280 BC on the island of Pharos off Alexandria, said to have been more than 350 ft, or 110 m, high). These wonders inspired the compilation of many other lists of seven attractions, or "wonders," by later generations.